Comments on: Videos about BlenderArt Magazine #19

By: Alain Mathez

Alain Mathez — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:46:58 +0000

Hi guys, I'm really sorry to be so stupid.
First I did a mistake in the tuto for the BAM # 19,
and then I didn't see your messages here up till now.

Marek : it's my mistake. The Empties are not Hooks but Vertex-Parented.
You have to do it with CTRL+P, Vertex Parent. Then the Empty follow the Vertex.
There are no Hooks in Chapter 3, shame on me.

With the agreement of Sandra Gilbert for the BAM, I have put a corrected PDF of my original
tuto on my FTP. Now my problem is that english is not so easy for me, and the BAM Team
has corrected a lot of "non-technical" things in the article. Has anyone a tool to compare
2 text files which have completely different layout ? Because the PDF is yet technically better
but englishally worse.

You will find the PDF here, sorry for the mess.
http://www.twilight.ch/mcblyver/Tutos/OIRA%20or%20AFAPIRA/CaterpillarSoftTrack/

Otherwise : no Physics, no Game Engine to do this. The intros are too long, ok.
I will do shorter next time, but for all the comming "OIRA or AFAPIRA" it will be the same, just click to skip it.

By: Tokka

Tokka — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:24:30 +0000

@Marek: Thanks for that workaround. I was running into the same problem. I am curious how it is working in the sample .blend? I am not seeing any hooks in there also….

By: banor

banor — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:49:09 +0000

@Hazlitt: No, I may not have known that, wow. ;) That WOULD be useful. But I think two versions of the mag would be better – one for dial-up and one for DSL, etc.

By: Hazlitt

Hazlitt — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:54:57 +0000

You know you can embed Flash videos into PDF's? I wouldn't mind a special Blender Mag with the videos embeded. Of course this would increse the download size, but hey! – why not!?

By: amanius

amanius — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:50:16 +0000

such a nice job in terms of constraints and BGE ut for the video composition intro it's not fitting to ur level

By: banor

banor — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:03:28 +0000

@NetOperator Wibbly: Don't quote me on this one, but I would say "No, don't expect videos to be a regular addition to the BlenderArt magazines." I think it really depends on the author of the articles, as well as whether their article references to anything that would work as a video (or, hopefully, be beneficial as well.) Anyhow, my two cents (or sense, if you wish. ;))

By: NetOperator Wibby

NetOperator Wibby — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:52:40 +0000

This is pretty nice of people to make videos to accompany the Blender magazines. Will this become a regular thing now?

By: banor

banor — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:48:23 +0000

@Marek: Don't know if this will help (or is your problem,) but to add a hook (which is an empty in this case) to a vertex, go into Edit Mode, select the vertex you want to add the hook to, hit Ctrl + H, and choose to "Add, New Empty." An empty will spawn, hooked to the vertex. Hope that helped.

God bless and Merry Christmas!!! :)
-b

By: ysvry

ysvry — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:18:02 +0000

realy smooth moving tracks, well done.

By: Bmud

Bmud — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:02:03 +0000

I'm confused… suppose I should read the magazine this month.